Robots compete to save the world, NASA loses big time

RoboSimian, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, takes a step during the terrain task at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, Friday, Dec 20, 2013, in Homestead, Fla. Seventeen teams from the United States, China, Japan, and Korea are participating in the DARPA Rpbotics Challenge Trials. The event is a test of some of the most advanced robots in the world. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Robot Atlas-Iam successfully concludes the terrain task at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, Friday, Dec 20, 2013, in Homestead, Fla. Seventeen teams from the United States, China, Japan, and Korea are participating in the DARPA Rpbotics Challenge Trials. The event is a test of some of the most advanced robots in the world. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Members of Team Valkyrie, NASA Johnson Space Center, try to repair Valkyrie after it stopped responding during the wall task at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, Friday, Dec 20, 2013, in Homestead, Fla. Seventeen teams from the United States, China, Japan, and Korea are participating in the DARPA Rpbotics Challenge Trials. The event is a test of some of the most advanced robots in the world. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Thor, Virginia Tech College of Engineering, Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory, tries to connect the hose to a firehose connection during the hose task at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, Friday, Dec 20, 2013, in Homestead, Fla. Seventeen teams from the United States, China, Japan, and Korea are participating in the DARPA Rpbotics Challenge Trials. The event is a test of some of the most advanced robots in the world. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Team Valkyrie, NASA Johnson Space Center, watch Valkyrie during the wall task at the Homestead-Miami Speedway, Friday, Dec 20, 2013, in Homestead, Fla. Seventeen teams from the United States, China, Japan, and Korea are participating in the DARPA Rpbotics Challenge Trials. The event is a test of some of the most advanced robots in the world. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

The final scores of the DARPA challenge. (http://www.theroboticschallenge.org/)

NASA has unveiled a new super hero robot and it appears to be a girl robot! Valkyrie stands 6'2" weighs 125 lbs and is designed to compete in a military competition to win $2 million.

NASA has unveiled a new super hero robot and it appears to be a girl robot! Valkyrie stands 6'2" weighs 125 lbs and is designed to compete in a military competition to win $2 million.

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Sixteen robots braved a re-created disaster zone this weekend to see which could cope in the event of global meltdown and win $2 million.

The event featured NASA's new female "Superhero" robot Valkyrie but the $3 million machine didn't score a single point in the best of 32 point matchup.

The winner came from Japan, the scene of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, which is the exact type of situation the Pentagon wants to see the robots able to handle.

The Department of Defense research agency DARPA said there will come a time when robots boldly go where humans cannot.

"History has repeatedly demonstrated that humans are vulnerable to nature and manmade disasters," says the Robotics Challenge website. "Robots have the potential to be useful assistants in situations in which humans cannot safely operate."

The champion SCHAFT far outstripped the others scoring 27 out of 32, it's so good that tech giant Google added it to its growing collection of robotics aquistitions, one of eight it bought this year.

As the DoD seeks to replace people with machines in disaster zones, speculation is that Google is looking to replace people with robots on their production lines.